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Breeze-Mist Feb 2017
Noon is a stallion, pushing through
Running over a massive plain of sky
With breezes as breath and a broad chest of blue
He runs wildly with the sun blazing in his eye
Jon Sawyer Dec 2016
In my old house
there seemed an old spirit
or maybe a mischievous mouse

I use to lay
in my old room at night
tired of the preceding day

The house would speak
tales of bomp, crattles, and creak
and here's what it had to say

"Womp, boop, dat,
flush, whoosh, and crack"
late at night the house would say

"Thud, crick, snap, whip,
Bang, Bang, Bang, blip"
laying on my bed this trip

And in the morn
when the old blinds were torn
here's what the old house had to say

"Pop, pop, pop, pop,
slam, nick, split, lop"
the old house continued to say

"Whack, ding, bump, splat,
hack, ping, thwump, flap"
wondering what made it sound this way

And through the noon
and into the night
my old house chatted all day

As I lay here thinking
I get the sinking feeling
that I'll start making it say

"Go to sleep and good night,
don't let the bed bugs bite,
I'll always have something to say"
26 December 2016
The silence of lake
In the midnight play
Intrigues

The cool breeze
During evening walks
Whispers sweet nothings

Sweat drops
Gleaning on the forehead
Irritates during scorching noon

The Sunshine at dawn
Fills the room with light
Wakes you up for the day's work

Life goes on
Àŧùl May 2016
Your midnight hour is my midday,
The sun blazes red hot overhead,
Your hotrod is much more cool,
The people here're just expended,
Your calm moon is our blazing sun.

The midnight here is lost in cooling,
Your 125ºF will be our 52ºC,
We get that often.

But you never get that normally.
Well, this is our story from the other side of the globe in May-June.

My HP Poem #1077
©Atul Kaushal
Raghu Menon Oct 2015
The air has a burnt smell
It is hot and dry
The streets are  empty
Even the dogs are missing
It is a hot and bright afternoon

People have taken refuge
under the roofs of their homes or work places
Even the trees seem to be mute
So are the birds and the cattle

My throat is dry
My mind is blank
My brain is asleep
Am struggling to keep awake

The weather is strange
The climate is changing
The ponds are dry
The brooks are dusty
with no water to flow

The earth is moving lazy and slow
Time seem to crawling because of the heat
The noon seems to un-ending
The schools are noiseless and sleepy.

It is dusty and hazy
The only wind being because of the
fast moving buses and trucks
and some occasional cars

The windows are closed
so do the doors of the buildings
across the streets
The rich enjoying their siesta
in the air conditioned rooms

The poor, sweating it out
in their places of work
for their daily wages
so that they can have
some food to eat in the night.

so also that
the rich can continue to have
their peaceful siestas
..
Swathi eruvaram Aug 2015
After a tiring trip to the zoo
Your eyes were tired too
Sleep grabbed you down soon
Followed by a missed meal in the noon
the Sandman Jun 2015
I have risen but
Have not shone, and will not do.
Remind me at noon.
Sadah H May 2015
A mouth of dried coffee and cigarettes
Kissed me in the confession room
Behind empty pews and empty promises

Afraid of a  worst taste
I never asked where you smoked
and who you drank with


You found your love in my ignorance
And I found mine
where there was none



It was not long before I fell
Fell into the space between spaces
and the cracks of time-

the tiny fissure where words arise
but never reach the surface
trapped in its buoyancy

I tried to leave and
You said I'd find you
tonight a splatter on the sidewalk

I bled a thousand words and more
That found no place midst
broken photo frames

When I had enough bones to walk out
You made sure I could never
make promises again

And I love the sweet boy
who sits on the corner of my pew
And asks about my day

Yet I can never promise him
the happiness I wish I had known
One summer noon
This is taken from reality. I write to come to terms with it, with my myself and all the guilt that ate at me
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